bill.d
March 22, 2023, 2:47am
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I'd suggest using Room Lighting to create groups (the app is a bit complex, but it does groups and scenes as well as room lighting automations). The old Groups and Scenes apps have been superseded and are now legacy at this point.
Learn how to use Room Lighting to automate lighting in a room based on motion sensors, contact sensors, buttons, and more! Room Lighting can also activate lights together, like a group or scene.
Some specifics on Zigbee groups:
Room Lights supports Zigbee Group Messaging (ZGM). This allows multiple Zigbee lights to activated by a single command on the Zigbee network. Doing so both cuts down on network traffic, but also causes the lights to respond all at the same instant.
However, there are limitations to this feature, and understanding exactly how it works sheds light on these. ZGM is tied to an Activator Device. When the Activator device is commanded, all of the lights in the ZGM group are commanded in exactly t…
